A Backwoods Wedding
On 14 August 1756, twenty-one-year-old Daniel Boone married seventeen-year-old Rebecca Bryan. By this time, Daniel had already served in Braddockâs Campaign during the French and Indian War, retreated from the Battle of the Monongahela, and listened to many tales of the Cumberland Gap and the land called Caintuck. He also had killed his first Indian,…